Artificial Intelligence As An Experimental Science

Abstract: For many centuries the physical sciences have improved our understanding of
the natural world through observation and experimentation. Although
artificial intelligence (AI) does not focus on the same phenomena, there is no
compelling reason to believe that the same methods will not work here as well.
Although this study is largely a description, from one perspective, of how AI
research is presently carried out, it is also a prescription (again from one
perspective) of how AI can be more productive.